The Metro Nashville school system may drop intersessions ? the spring and fall breaks designed to give struggling students extra academic time ? and instead add extra school days for everyone.

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Lisa Fingeroot
| The Tennessean

The Metro Nashville school system may drop intersessions - the spring and fall breaks designed to give struggling students extra academic time - and instead add extra school days for everyone.

The controversial balanced calendar that causes an early August start date each school year isn't likely to change, though. Intersession will continue through the next school year, but Director of Schools Jesse Register is supporting a change for the 2014-15 school year.

He presented three options to the school board on Tuesday. His preferred route is to drop the intersessions and add mandatory ...